Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released, including some improvements and bug fixes. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Improvements

• We now officially support SLES 12
• Improved inventory submission reliability

Bug fixes

• Fixed windows agent storage sample when a specific volume does not have permissions
• Fixed wrong storage metrics for containerized agent

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released, including some improvements and bug fixes. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

New features

• Add Support to Windows ReFS (Resilient FileSystem).

Improvements

• Windows: optimized collection of processes and services data.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the agent to switch between full and short reported hostname in some configurations.
• Windows: Fixed a bug that caused custom integrations being executed twice.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released, including some internal improvements and bug fixes. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Improvements

• Slightly restructured the inventory cache to optimize its behavior when the agent identifier changes.

Bug fixes

• Windows: Fixed a bug that avoids the submission of some metrics when the user changes the default namespace for Windows management instrumentation.
• Fixed an error that happens during the configuration parse of some Docker containers.

Notes

A new version of the Windows agent has been released, fixing a security issue that allowed non-privileged users with access to the system to inject configuration arguments to the agent external plugins.

Please see New Relic Security Bulletin NR18-10 for more details.

Notes

A new version of the Infrastructure agent has been released.

Bug fixes

• Fixed disk usage above 100% in Windows.
• Fixed previous version bug causing zero values for CPU and IO in the process samples.

Notes

A new version of the Infrastructure agent has been released.

Improvements

• Unix processes are now sampled in a non-blocking manner.

Bug fixes

• In Linux, solved a bug that prevented the agent submitting the metrics from all the storage devices when reading the data from a single device failed.
• Fixed negative CPU steal in some old versions of Linux paravirtualized kernels.

Notes

A new version of the agent that fixes some bugs has been released.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the agent to crash in some systems.
• Fixed an error message that displays after running new on-host integrations for the first time.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released, which includes a security fix.

Improvements

• Disabled warning messages when caching new plugins info. The warning messages might have given the impression that there was an error or malfunction where the caching mechanism was working as intended.

Bug fixes

• Security Bulletin NR18-05: Fixed a security issue in which, under some premises, the process sampler may not strip correctly the command-line information and submit some sensitive data to the Process View.
• Fixed a problem where if the agent was disconnected for >24 hours and then would reconnect, it would not resend this data to New Relic.
• Fixed storage metrics calculations on Windows hosts.
• Fixed inventory of installed programs on Windows hosts, which were not correctly reported since v1.0.859.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Allow disabling inventory of SELinux modules in hosts where the associated command consumes too much CPU. Set selinux_enable_semodule configuration option to false to disable it while keeping the rest of SELinux plugin features.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that avoided updating the information of a Linux process when its command name changes at runtime, or when a new process starts with a PID that already existed for a previous process.